Also, the fact that he got out so quickly means he’s a snitch.
If you’re caught, you’re caught. Better luck next time, work on your opsec. Don’t burn down the lives of everyone involved to save your neck.
He didn’t JUST snitch, he became a confidential informant and used his position to deanonymize the rest of the primary Lulzsec team.
Don’t step into the ring if you can’t handle the consequences.
Does this guy think Wikipedia is run like a country
He should blame the guys that found the website for the structure of the rules governing it.
Actually, you can. Someone figured out how to do it.
It is only possible on a very limited set of devices with old firmware. It isn’t exactly comparable.
You think USA government agencies never thought of using public surveillance cameras to spy on people before now?
No. I do not.
I think allowing a private company access to that kind of data, without any meaningful restrictions on what they can do with it, is a lot different than the current situation of ‘spy agencies can spy for the government’.
If I’m a bad guy and I can get access to a Flock (or Palantir, fed by Flock) subscription then I can do bad guy things a lot more effectively. Can you think of any bad guys who could afford such a subscription?
Who owns that data and what rules it falls under is important. The government needs a warrant to obtain cell-site location tracking data, but Flock can sell a subscription to obtain that same data to anybody who can clear an ACH transfer.
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Why don’t they just add ‘don’t make mistakes’ to the system prompt, are they stupid?
‘Can be’ and ‘are’ are two completely different categories of things.
The AI-driven price increases:
And with things like selling HEVC support in their new media player, something that was free previously (and still free with VLC Player.